[ripe-list] ICT for Sustainability: conference highlights & similar upcoming events

Dear colleagues,

         This week (24-28. June), at KTH Royal Institute of Technology 
in Stockholm, Sweden ( & online), "ICT4S" conference took place: 
https://conf.researchr.org/home/ict4s-2024

Here are my favourite papers, a keynote & a zine:

1) Papers:

* How to favour more cooperative deployments for Network 
Infrastructures, by Dr. Nathalie Labidurie Omnes et.al (Orange) 
https://conf.researchr.org/getImage/ict4s-2024/orig/ICT4S2024_paper_67.pdf

* ICT Sufficiency is Necessary: Results from Simulating Four Possible 
Futures, Gabriel Andy Szalkowski et.al, Dept. of Inf. Sec. and 
Communication Tech. Norwegian University of Science and Technology 
Gjøvik 
https://conf.researchr.org/getImage/ict4s-2024/orig/ICT4S2024_paper_64.pdf

* All the papers from "The True Cost of ICT: From Materiality to 
Techno-Solutionism" workshop 
https://ict4s24-tcict.github.io/#call-for-contributions


2) "The case for digital degrowth" : Keynote  by Neil Selwyn, Monash 
University, Australia:
https://conf.researchr.org/track/ict4s-2024/ict4s-2024-keynotes

It is increasingly argued that we are approaching the point of ‘peak 
digital’, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption 
of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, 
ecological breakdown and ongoing societal instability. In this talk, 
Neil Selwyn explores how degrowth thinking and alternate forms of 
‘radically sustainable computing’ might support ambitions of 
sustainable, scaled-down and equitable ways of living with digital 
technologies. Drawing on the latest thinking from across the social 
sciences, ecological economics, political ecology, environmental 
justice, and computer sciences, Neil argues that degrowth thinking 
offers a compelling basis from which to completely rethink our digital 
futures in these fast-changing times.

3) Zine "Liminal Excavations" (including my contribution, in personal 
capacity)  :

A zine that explores alternative visions, ideas and critiques on the 
topic of sustainability and ICT https://doi.org/10.21428/57a7f7a7.5d685a20 *
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Upcoming Events:
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* HotCarbon: Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems
Tue. July 9, University of California , Santa Cruz +
Remote participation is free of charge: 
https://hotcarbon.org/register#registration

* Hamburg Sustainability Session #8 (Sustainable Laboratories)
September 12, 13:00 - 14:30 (CEST – Central European Summer Time)
in English. Participation is free of charge.
register at: https://esssr.eu/events/hss-8-sustainable-laboratories/

* 2nd Transatlantic Symposium on Sustainable Development in Higher 
Education:
10 Oct 2024 – 11 Oct 2024
Hasselt, Belgium, University of Applied Sciences and Arts
https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/events/hasselt2024/

I wish you a green summer,
Vesna